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Monday, 8 June 2015

The Clock Was On For The Final Holes at Whistle Bear...

The TV
coverage for the LPGA Manulife Classic this past weekend was brutal.We hardly got to watch any of the girls play
except their final holes and even some of that was highlights from earlier on
that day.Thursday and Friday these
girls were teeing off at 7:30 in the morning yet we couldn’t see any of our
Canadian hopefuls play.I had a couple
of golfers come in over the past couple days and ask me about this “being on
the clock for slow play” thing and it reminded me of when I was playing Junior and
Varsity golf and that being a major problem for some of the girls to me I have
my pre-shot routine down to seconds so slow play was never a problem.Now having said that if we were looking for
lost a ball that does add time to each hole but you just have to get moving
after that.Committing to each shot and
sticking with it instead of second guessing yourself leads to success.

Now onto my recap from Whistle Bear:

Even though Suzann
Pettersen had her worst round at the LPGA Classic on Sunday, she was still able
to pull out the win.On the clock for
slow play and down a shot to Brittany Lang with three holes to go, Pettersen
drained birdie putts on holes 16 and 17, before a par on 18 to win the LPGA
Classic by one stroke at 22-under par.

Suzanne was
quoted saying: “I was pretty flawless through three rounds and broke that
effort pretty quickly with a couple of bogeys, but I managed to get my head
together and play some good golf. I played aggressive and it was a good day on
the golf course.”

We were all
rooting for Canadian Brooke Henderson to do well on home soil but it just wasn’t
in the cards for her this week.

“I saw
coming through nine (the cut) was minus-4 and I thought, ‘Boy, I have a lot of
work to do,’” Henderson said after she made her way around the 6,613-yard
layout at two-under 70.

“I really
grinded deep and I really found a lot of inner strength because I could have
easily given up, but instead, I got myself a lot of birdies coming in,” she
said.

“Even if I
don’t make the cut today, I think I learned a lot about myself and my game
coming down the stretch.”

I was really
impressed with Stratford’s Natalie Gleadall this past weekend.Natalie and I played some junior golf
together growing up. I am so proud of how well she this weekend.Natalie was quoted: “It has taken me four
years to (qualify for) this tournament. I’m just super excited to be able to
play the weekend,”

"I've
definitely overcome a lot of things and I've persisted. But without my parents,
I would never be here and I'm just really thankful to have made the cut and
kind of prove to myself that I can play out here," Natalie said.Keep up the good work Natalie!!!!